Sunday, 24 April 2016

Liz a member of Yorkshire Modern Quilters shared the instructions and did a demo on the lone star quilt, I have had 2 attempts to make it, neither went together perfectly, both did not seem to come right in the corners of the background fabric but after seeing what others had done this had happened to some others too so decided to complete it. This is the second attempt, not sure what I will use it for, Helen has suggested I could give it to Wheatfields Hospice, they have crochet blankets the same size which work well when the patients are propped up in bed (they need much smaller blankets then) but do not think it will take too kindly to being hot or maybe boil washed, she is going to ask about laundry. It measures 40" square and have quilted it with a walking foot. Now waiting for wadding before I can do the other one, this one I pieced a couple of pieces together that were left overs.

I have also made a baby quilt for a colleague from the hospice whose wife is expecting, he wanted a quilt with animals etc on so came up with this cot quilt it measures 45" x 36". I have done squiggly quilting in the yellow squares (FMQ) and assorted lines on the blocks with the walking foot, sorry quilting does not seem to show on the photo.

I made far more blocks than necessary so made a smaller one out of the left overs which measures 32" x 35"quilted in a similar way to the bigger one, not sure what this will be used for but it will just sit on the spare bed along with other quilts till someone wants it.

No stitching this weekend as have Alfie here and he is moulting all over the place but plan to push on with more syringe driver bags and also some tiny bags for rings to go in when returning them to relatives, Helen also said they would like some little bags for locks of hair that relatives request when they lose a dear one so will work on some of those too

Thursday, 21 April 2016

Whilst wandering through Marks and Spencers on tuesday I came across some sewing machines set up and a crowd of ladies around them. Such a worthwhile cause they were getting people to make bags to hold syringe drivers which are given to patients who need continous doses of pain killers to help them manage pain particularly cancer sufferers. Well of course I had to get a pattern and today made my first bag, I am so proud to say I have a daughter who is a pallative care nurse in a hospice so I am now making bags for her patients, she requested I made some suitable for men, well my stash does not have much in the way of manish fabric! but did have this piece of fabric with cars on so have run the bag up and will give it to Helen to take in tomorrow and if they approve will go into mass production as the bags once given to a patient are not reused due to risk of infection etc so they need a constant supply. This could not have come at a better time as waiting for wadding for the 7 large and 4 small quilts waiting to be quilted

http://makingforcharity.co.uk/ this is a link that was shared and has other projects too

I will do another blog with 2 baby quilts and a loan star quilted all completed soon but felt this needed a blog of its own,

Sunday, 3 April 2016

As promised I am loading up the mini quilts which I did with Michele Foster, think I have been on a great journey quilting these.

Bear necessities

back of bare necessities

carousel rides

back of carousel rides

penny candy

back of penny candy

Moroccan tiles

back of Moroccan stars

square vortex

Twinkling stars

back of twinkling stars

all minis apart form carousel rides measure 24" square carousel rides is 27.5" square.No photo of the back of square vortex as I used a very patterned fabric for the backing and the quilting does not show up on it, also if I had thought more about it would have done more quilting but this is the first one I attempted. So good to have them finished at last, now not sure what to do with them.